The first British writer to win the Booker Prize on two separate occasions - for Wolf Hallin 2009 and its sequel Bring Up the Bodiesin 2012 - Hilary Mantel is one of the most popular and lauded novelists working today.
Hilary Mantel: Contemporary Critical Perspectivesis a critical guide to Mantel's work, from her earliest novels through to her recent Thomas Cromwell fictions, including analysis of her short story collections and memoir. Chapters cover such topics as Mantel's engagement with history to her deployment of the spectral and her extensive intertextuality. The book also includes a comprehensive interview with Mantel herself that explores her work and career.
